20/07/2026
Meet the choreographer: Frankie Snowdon () - territory
Born and raised in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, Frankie is the founder and Co-Director of GUTS Dance Central Australia. Her work as a dance artist spans performance, choreography, teaching, community based projects, program creation and facilitation and sector advocacy. Frankie has worked extensively as a performer, choreographer, collaborator and producer throughout Australia and abroad, for big and small companies (Lucy Guerin Inc., Chunky Move, Opera Australia), but mainly on myriad Independent projects and platforms that champion experimental and diverse artistic expression.
Frankie says: “I first started thinking about the concepts and ideas that have evolved in “territory” over a decade go, as a younger artist in a different country at a different time. It’s astonishing and important to me that over that time, the big ideas and feelings I have about what “territory” grapples with - broadly humanity’s obsession with power and control, and the instruments governments and their actors have created in order to impose this control on societies and individuals - feel louder and more urgent than ever. It’s taken me a long time to find the bravery and right collaborators to make this work, and I am overcome by gratitude to be able to bring it to life, here and now, back in my home and contextualised by all that has shaped me, my understanding of the world and my practice.”
You can catch “territory” on Sunday August 2nd in the Araluen Gallery. Link to tickets in our bio.
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Collaborating Performers:
Understudy:
Sound Composition/Design: and
Lighting, Spatial, Set Design: Jen Hector
Creative Consultant - territory:
Dramaturge:
Creative Producer: Frances Robinson
Production Management: Tryptic Event Management
Thought Leader:
Creative Consultant: Ping Flynn
Other previous contributors
Choreography and performance:
Dramaturgy for territory: Declan Furber-Gillick
